More than 200,000 patients per year undergo coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Up to 20 percent of these patients will require readmission within 30-days. Many of these patients present to our EDs with numerous complications that we must be able to recognize and treat. In this podcast, John leads an outstanding discussion on the 3 most common complications and reasons these patients present to the ED.
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